Sir Richard Burton Quotes

1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay
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“They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.”
Plagiarism
“Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.”
Travel and Tourism
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
Affliction
“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.”
Alcohol and Alcoholism
“A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.”
Riches
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
Friends and Friendship